Saturday, 31 January 2015

Eggless Chocolate Cake + Hot Fudge Sauce

Assalamau alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu!In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most MercifulThis hot fudge sauce may become your next addiction. Seriously, stock up on the evaporated milk. You're going to want to make more than one batch of this. To pour over waffles, ice cream and pancakes. Or even just spread cold over quinoa rice cakes. Trust me, you will go there. It is that good - sweet but with a deep, buttery chocolate flavour.And, what was the vehicle for such decadence in our case? An eggless (and vegan) chocolate cake, of course. I've attempted plenty of gluten-free baking before but never anything without eggs (well, not on purpose anyway). How could I? I love eggs. But, this chocolate cake was good. Slightly dryer than usual but I suppose that's to be expected with the absence of the eggs.And, it's why I'm giving you permission to drown your slice in the hot fudge sauce. You're being healthy, what with your vegan cake and all.

First, the vanilla. This is the vanilla I use in place of the usual extract because I can't get hold of an alcohol free one. You can buy it here.

Add 1 tablespoon Vanilla ...

.. to the first well.

Next, white wine vinegar. (yes, it's halal).

Measure out 1 tablespoon White Wine Vinegar.

And pour it into the second well.

For the third wet ingredient, vegetable oil.

Pour 85ml Vegetable Oil into the third well.

And, your bowl should look a little something like this.

Finally, the last ingredient, 250ml Cold Water. Nothing fancy, just straight up from the tap.

Pour it in.

And, we're ready to mix.

You can mix it by hand but I used an electric mixer because I had a million other things going on that day.

Mix until a smooth batter is formed.

Then, pour said batter into your prepared cake tin.

Bake for 35-40 minutes until the top is cracked and a knife poked through the centre comes out clean.

Note: The original recipe said that if you take this cake out 10 minutes earlier then it will be like a brownie cake. I didn't try it but I'm sure you can experiment you your hearts content.

Let the cake cool in the tin for 10 minutes whilst you make the hot fudge sauce.

Gather together your ingredients for the hot fudge sauce.

And, a large, deep saucepan to put them all in. It couldn't be more simpler than throwing all the ingredients into a pan and boiling together. This recipe does make quite a big batch of fudge sauce so feel free to halve if you wish.

First up, caster sugar.

Pour in 340 grams Caster Sugar.

Next, more sugar. But this time, for a fudgy flavour, brown sugar.

Add 85 grams Soft Light Brown Sugar.

Time for the chocolate. And, instead of using a chocolate bar, we are using cocoa powder to give the sauce a really deep chocolate flavour.

So, in goes 100 grams Cocoa Powder. After having tested this recipe again, I would highly recommend that you sift the cocoa powder.

And, the final dry ingredient, 30 grams Plain Flour. This will help to thicken our fudge sauce.

Give everything a stir and it's time for the wet ingredients.

First up, 250ml Water.

Pour it in.

Next, to give shine to our sauce, 2 tablespoons Butter.

And, for a little extra flavour, 2 teaspoons Vanilla Flavouring.

Finally, evaporated milk.

Evaporated milk is different to condensed milk which contains added sugar.

Pour in 1 can (400 grams) Evaporated Milk.

And, that's it. Time to cook!

Place the pan onto the cooker and slowly bring to the boil.

Give it a good stir at the same time.

Once boiling, let the sauce cook over a medium heat for 5 minutes.And, it's done! Let it cool for a few minutes before serving.Which gives us plenty of time to get our cake out of the tin and sliced.

When the sauce has cooled slightly, pour it into a serving jug.

And, get pouring!

Then decide that you need more. Because you know. Homemade hot fudge sauce.

I hope you enjoy the cake and hot fudge sauce as much as we did. And, I apologize in advance if you become a hot fudge sauce addict.Full Written Recipe:

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